Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle, 30 June 1900

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  • 21 1 Pinang Gazette AND STRAITS CHRONICLE. PUBLISHED DAILY. NEW SERIES ESTABLISHED 1833. PRSCE 20 CENTS. VOL. LVIII. SATURDAY, BOtli JUNE, No. 148
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  • 878 1 i Programme of August Meeting, 1990. FIRST DAY. Tuesday, 31st July, 1900 i. The Maiden Plate. Value 8300.A Race for Maiden Horses. Weight as per sca'e (tost.) An allowance of 71bs. to all ex-Griffins. Entrance 810. Distance, 1 mile 2. The Roadsters’ Race. Value $2OO.A Race for
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 763 1 Shipping Jhifcs. Peninsular Oriental Steau Navigation Company. f |l-ll'- mail steamers may be /jK expected to arrive outt* 9 wards, and leave Penang homewards, on the following dates: Outwards. Homewards. Chusan July 12 C/ydi June 30 Hallnirjt 26 Bengal July 14 Aug. 9 Vuletta 28 Ci.r.miandA 23 Malta Aug. it
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    • 1675 1 NADRRn ITCCUrD I I nvn BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, Limited. IWKDDLU I OUntK LLUTU. KONINKLIJKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. SL NEGAPATAM LINE OF STEAMERS. Nippon YUSOII KaiSha. v. lntended Sailing and expected Arrival nJ Steamers. japan mail steamship c©., Ltd. I For Will Sail Steamer. From Expected on 11 I \x
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    • 91 1 A*)£NAT<rrs BAND. NOTICE is hett liy given that from the dale below the charges for the services of thr Ban 1 will be as follows Dances 830 Dinners and Promenades 20 Garden Parties, At Homes 16 Transport, extra. To subscribers of not less than 812 per annum half the above
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    • 830 1 IBanks. Nederlandsche iiande' 'Haatsc* ifpij. Ni THERLANI S T'.'Al ING SOCII TY Estahi. ishid 104; Paid-up Capital f. 35,783 a tabt. £3,000,000 Reserve FuKr>...f. 2,773,000 (a! t. 225,000 Head Office in Amsterdam. Head Agency in Batavia. Branches: Singapore. Rangoon, M' (Deli), Samarang. Sourabaya. Padaii CF.ere bon, Tegal, Pecalongan, Pasoerocar. Tjilajiap
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  • 278 2 REUTER’ S TELEGRAMS. B Mii.ir. zcjrH |t sf. 1-27 p.m. Heavy Fighting in the Transvaal. Trying to Surround me Doers. The Daily Telegraph's correspondent at Pretoria, telegraphing on the 26th instant, states that, since Sunday, Generals French and Hamilton have been endeavouring to sui round the enemy’s position, fifteen miles
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  • 230 2 A real grievance, and one that should be redressed without delay, is ventilated by Planter” in to-day's Pithing Gazette. Had the arrangement been one of the mysterious tricks, usually associated with the Post Office, it would have caused no surprise to anybody, for the postal arrangements are
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  • 345 2 Wi: hearthat, during last week, at Kreti, which is about ten miles from Teluk Semawi, the Rajah of the place, who, by the way, is a lady, received information that the local Sultan intended to personally lead an expedition against her. The Sultan, it would appear, had
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  • 358 2 It has been brought to our notice that a number of Chinese residents at Tana Tinggi village, near Jelutong, have bem for some time past systematically robbed of their belongings, and that the violent behaviour and threats of the robbers have intimidated the victims from bringing these
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  • 1264 2 Wk read, with much regret, the notification l y 1 hursday'% mail of the deaili of Mr T. A. Woolrliidge. Mr Wooldridge was, a« is stated by the L. C Express, a wed known man in Pen-ing. Ab ut 15 years ago, he at rived in these
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  • 75 2 Os the Turf, 1900 will always be known as the Prince's ye«r, for he ba- won fom of the great events of the season, three ol them with Diamond Jubilee. They are: 29th Mar h. Grand National, Ambush 11. /’1,975 os. 2nd May, Two Thousand Guineas, Diamond
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  • 548 2 A terrible case of amok occurred at Tanjong Rhu yesterday afternoon (25th June}, resulting in the death of four pe:s >ns and tbe serious wounding of several others. It appears that shortly after 5.30., a Malay, named Haji Abdul Sukor, an imam at the Mosque,
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  • 66 2 There is general unrest among the southern tribes in Morocco Severe fighting has taken place near Tarudant, whence a hundred rebel prisoners are arriving chained at Mogador. Basha Hammo, commanding the Sultan’s troops, is deal. Kaid Gilooly, the chief of Hie Sus army, as been recalled.
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  • 72 2 Neue Freie Presse Vienna The end has come swiftly as a great surprise, as were the English defeats at the beginning of the war. England oweto Lord Roberts more than is probably realised. England’s prestige is fairly reestablished now, but not Jong since bet star
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  • 58 2 The following is a table of outsider--which have won the Derby Years. Winner. Odds Ag’st. 1898 Jeddah jOO to I 1867 Hermit 66 to 1 1818 ziwr 5° ,0 1 j 883 St. Blaise 50 to I 1873 Doncaster 45 to 1 1837 Phosphorus 40
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  • 108 2 A sign of the times in Ashanti is seen itan advertisement in the London papers fo candidates for a number of appointments m tbe God Coast Constabulary. T t terrors of the climate may l>e seen in th. attractiveness given to the posts. 1 lit alary begins
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  • 97 2 Numbers Killed and Injured. An account has been received from thgovernment of Assam of a tornado, which visited the southern corner of the Goalpara district on the afternoon of the 18ih of April last Ihe tort ado was apparently some five or six miles in length.
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  • 199 2 In Pensĕes de Femme (Straits Times), Vanitas remarks:l ant told that the custom of ladies’ tiffins, prevailing this season in London as well a» at Singapore, t. <lue entirely to the dearth of available men for any sosial function, thtough th «b-ence of the great majority
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  • 210 2 In reference to the recent discovery of Syriac and Cutie documents 1,000 ye <rs old at Damascus, the following additional detat s, showing the manner of the discovery, may prove of interest Some tune ago tbe Amwy Mosque was burnt down the Government b gan rebuilding
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  • 377 2 In Village Life in China, by /Arthur 11. Sm th, D. D., one reads that the whole plan of Chinese study has been aptly called intellectual infanticide. As an example of the effect of the narrow range of studies on the mind, it is quite possible th t
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  • 56 2 [From our own Correspondent SINGAPOIIn. {3oth June) Ambassadors to China. Their Report- d Safety Creditable reports have arrived that the foreign ministers |.a Peking for Shanhaikwan or fient sin, Chinese soldiers forming the r escort. American Western Pacific Squadron. Wreck of the Oregon.” The (J. S. S. Oregon
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  • 61 2 At a meeting of the Ceylon Associ.t’ in London, held recently, M r p j-' Ru’hetfor 1 calle I attention to the outlook for 1 a producers, owii g 0 rapid increa-e i-n the ou-piit of t-a r C ylon and In Ha, whi< h, v rukii
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  • 370 2 (To the Editor of the Pinang Gazette 1 Dear Sir, Kindly allow me a spac- in your pap. r for the purpose of making h f ei leniarks re the difficulties attached to import;;» ca’tle from Kedah. To give an instance: a sh rt ii :!1 I
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  • 745 2 P C C. v. Merchants The return match between the P. C. C. and Merchants was played on ihe Esplanade, yesterday evening. Ti e teams «ere late in turning up, and at 5.30 it was eci.led to start ttie game, t .un-tac. t-am was short by a player;
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 1136 2 Pritchard Co. Is 'VTO. 3 CLOVE HALL ROAD, from the Ist °fJ u 'y. «900- A t Ladies' Department 0(431 ItV WANTED. Are now shewing all the latest t» oa rd .nJ wi.h pd.a. novelties in fl fl L B Ladies Untrimmed and Sailor Hats notice. White fancy Straws, g
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  • 1329 3 Xo more tragic story has been told during the South African war, it seems Io m e, than that of the death of Sergean'M,<jor Patrick Campbell, of the Imperial Yeomanry. The tragedy is on this side ,j on that. Con-i ieriog the fierce deter mination
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  • 76 3 There was in 1899 a slight increase under certain heads of Revenue, in Hong k° n but ow ing to the large decreases under those of Postage Stamps and f rofit on Exchange, the total R venue received was lesby $19,*****. On the Expenditure side
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  • 80 3 e observe with regret, says Light, the indications of a slow decay of the Shaker communities in America. Thirty yearago, they had eighteen communities and abcut 9,000 members. To-day, the membership lias declined to a little over a thousand and good judges are of opinion that these
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  • 111 3 According to the New York Herald, papers in a suit lor divotce by the Com te--e Festetics against Comte Rudolph 1-estetics de Tolna have been fia-d in the Superior Court. De-ertion and failure to provide for support aie the specific charges. The complaint states that
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  • 338 3 The Calcutta Statesman says:Elihi Bakhsh, tailor, of Queensland, Australia, but a native of Indra, was married, about three years and six months ago, in Australia, to Louisa Grover, an Au-tralian woman, according to the Muhammadan form of marriage. Altoui six mouths ago, the pair came
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  • 522 3 fi-h's our fashion."Dougas btory iu the Daily Mail, Brave men themselves, the c e fighting Boers have a chivalrous re-p-ct for lhe soldiers of the Queen. General Botha, watching wave after wave of khaki 1 a-li itseif to du-t against the kopjes, crie
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  • 82 3 The National Gallery had a narrow escape from being damaged by fire on the 30th of May. There was an outbreak at the premises of Messrs. Watherston’s, diamond jewellers, which adj ins the western en. of the gallery in Pall mall, and in a few minutes
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  • 121 3 Major General Trench is the only son of Captain John French, of the Royal Navy, and was born in 1852 at the family seat of Ripple Vale, near Walmer. There has been much controversy of late regarding General French'snationahty,but the family was originally French, as the
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  • 141 3 One of the vessels of the well known Sierra” line, which so often comes to Rangoon, was wrecked last month on the oast near Melbourne. The Sierra Nevada -tniek on London Bridge Rock, Port Phillip Heads, at 1 am. on the 9th of May, when 23 lives
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  • 866 3 Half-Yearly Report. The directors’ report for the half year ended March 31 last states: Since the last report was issued four new 7,000 ton steamers have been contracted for with Me-srs. Caird and Co., Messrs. Barclay. Curie and Co., and Messrs. A Stephen and Son.
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  • 120 3 Penang, 30TH June. 1900. Rates close as follows London, Demand Bank i/rrjj Do. 4 months’ sight Bank 2/0J Do. 3 Credits 2 o/. Do. 3 Documentary 20} Calcutta, Demand Bank Rs. Do. 3 days’ sight Private 151 Bombay, Demand Bank 150$ Do. 3 days’ sight Private 151 Madras, Demand
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  • 84 3 Orders by Capt.im J. G- Allan, for Acting Commandant Parades fur Next Week. Monday, Officers and Non C. Os instructions, 5-15 p.tn. Tuesday, Company diill A. and B Cos., 515 pm. emesday, Company drill A. and B Cos., 515 p.m. rThuiS'iay, Officers and Non C. Os instruction-, 5
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  • 53 3 The s. s. Thaiping (Captain Mcnzeli) arrived from Pon eid yesiet-ay, bitug ing Sisters St. Franus Xaviei,Sl. FamcK, and St. Stanislaus, and 68 ueck-pa-sengeis The s. s. Rosa (Captain Lyons), which arrived here hum bmgapoie yesterday, brought Doctor Lrenkiuk, Messis. »oii Jungman, Haitnell, N. Charlie and Clnu uhung,
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  • 40 3 Mails Close on Monday. For Per str Time. Rangoon Ooryia 11 a.m. Deli ...h,be 1 pm angkor and Teluk Anson Canton 2 P.M. Singagore. Ho: g'-ong. Swatow i Amoy \'.<inv<»ig 3 r.ri. Tuesday, 3RO, Langkat Quorr.c ...it a.m
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  • 26 3 From Stemi r To Arrive. Hamburg Eva 2-7-00 A alcutta Lightning 27-0 Singapore I'm Seng 2-7 00 Rangoon Fitzpatrick 2-7-00 Edie Mactsuijckcr i7'°°
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  • 78 3 Arrival*. Yes r ekday. s. s. Fosa from Sing ip >re s. s. 1 haifring from Port Weld. Departure* fo i>» s. s. .Vary Austin for Klang s. s. Dili for Langkat s s. Ho Ki.es for Deli s. s. Tai.- I onj for Pangkor and Teluk Anson s.
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  • 87 3 July 2 Outward Nord 1 Lloyd Mail Steamer Komg Albert from Bremen, for >mgapore, China and Japan, Behu, Meyer tc Co. 3s s '•umatra fr«-m Deli, for Deli, Behu Meyer Jc Co. 4 Homevaid Nordd Lloyd Mail Steamer Oldenburg from Singapore, foi Colombo, Suez, 1 ort Said. Naples.
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  • 91 3 Saturday, 30TH Mail to Europe closes at 5 p tn. Town Band, Golf Club, at 5 30 p m. High-water at New Jetty, 2-30 p.m. and 2- a.m. Sunday, ist 3RD Sunday after Trinity. High-water at New Jetty, 320 pm. and 3- m. Monday.
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  • 97 3 Second Sunday after Trinity. St. George's Church. Litany and Matins, at 7-30 a.m. Holy Communion, at 8-15 a.m. Children's Service, etc ,at 4-45 p.m. Evensong, with sermon, at 0 p.m. Church of the Assumption. First Mass, at 6 a.m.; High Mass, at 8 a.m. and Vespers and Benediction,
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 134 3 Why Some People Are Poor. BAD management keeps more people in poor circumstances than any other one cause. To be successful one must look ahead and plan ahead so that when a favoiable opportunity presents itself he is ready to take advantage of it. A little forethought will also save
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    • 1809 3 8,,y0nd H0p0 ALLAN T I rOQI IMP s -L with Rheumatism will be glad to hear of I I A AjV A g I lIYa I B J J remedy that has proved an abs flute specific AND fcr I W 1 here are no conditions of Rheumatism, no matter
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  • 179 4 Penang, 30m June, 1900. Tin *7Mo (Trang 2950 Black Pepper West Coast... no sales. (Acheen 6ll> no sales. White Pepper 43-5°-Cloves (picked) 3 2 -5° Mace No. r 90.—sellers. Mace l ickings Ho. do. Nutmegs 59 5° l I No. 1 7-75 JoSugar < 2 4. «5
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  • 293 4 (Straits Times, 27in June, 1900) Raubs (16,10 pd.) 858.50 *£l fully pa 1.1... ...859-5° Kechau Gold (£to paid) 8 26.50 ,-a .die. The N. Kechau Mining Co. J 6.8 > dinars. S. Raul B t»:oo pd.) »170.— i.-. Do (850 pd.) 870. Sepiau (|io pd.) S 15.75
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
    • 175 4 Penang Foundry Company (Established 1876) ENGINEERS, MILLWRIGHTS BRASS and IRON FOUNEERV SHIPWRIGHTS Blacksmiths C< Plumber* BOILER-MAKERS BRIDGE BUILDERS and CONT RACTORS for the supply and repair of STEAMSHIPS. MACHINERY STRUCTURE of all kinds. ALSO SALVING CONTRACTORS. Machinery, Engineering Appli ances, Materials, Fitting---, Stores &c., in Stock. Works, 7 IFr/iY Quay
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    • 1621 4 The North Mar Expedition of tbo AggntS(GP LEA PERRhiiT ra rn rtCrttiiSTERSHIRE SAUCE. PERAK STATE RAILWAYS. I Duke of Abruzzernc. 0 W E have just been not,tied that «0 AK r 5 gf Time TaWe ,rom ,St F l >™ lf y- furthr n C Tim.™ K PHiM i I
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    • 376 4 i Per Month H THE Pinang ENLARGED EDITION. Per Month H (For Local Subscribers M S>2. I THE H PINANG GAZETTE,’ M ENLARGED DAILY EDITION. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. rHE price of the Pinang j e 1111 l free is as follows: HM To Government Offices an.! r r r in
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